How to uninstall spamassassin?

[Aspegic]

I have searched for hours now, and although there are hundreds of sites explaining how to install spamassassin, I do not seem to be able to find a single one that explains how to uninstall it?! (actually I did find one but that was for Windows).

As a temporary solution I tried to see if I could at least find a way to disable spamd.
I edited exim.conf and added the '#' again in the spamassassin paragraph that I had removed when I installed spamassassin. I hoped that would prevent exim from trying to use spamd.
Then I killed spamd (killall spamd).
But when I restarted exim the spamd process was also started again automatically.

How can I uninstall spamassassin? (preferably without breaking anything)

 

[Aspegic]

Ok, in this thread Jeff explains that even if spamassassin is commented out in exim.conf it will still continue to run (but it won't be used). So I guess that explains why spamd is restarted when exim is restarted.

So that leaves just the original question: how to completely uninstall spamassassin?

 

[nobaloney]

Reinstall the original exim startup command so SPAMD won't restart. How to do that and where to get the file is dependent on your OS distribution. We don't bother.

And as far as finding all the files and deleting them ... honestly I've never looked.

Jeff

 

[EXdeliver]

why dont you just uncomment spam assasin in the init.d ?
Also ofcourse in the exim.conf

Then it wont load, and wont use it at all.